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ROSALIA - Hundreds turned out Saturday, June 3, for annual event that brings a parade, Boy Scout breakfast, a fun run and many more activities to the town of Rosalia. The event commemorates the 1858 Battle of Pine Creek....
Southeast Spokane County Fair royalty from Freeman High School, from left, Princess Addison Bowen, Ambassador Emily Thieren and Princess Chloe Myers ride in the bed of a pickup truck in Rosalia's Battle Days parade on June 3, 2023....
MALDEN – After more than two weeks on the trail, the John Wayne Pioneer Wagons and Riders Association completed its 45th 200-mile, cross-state trek Saturday, June 3. The riders hopped on their wagons and horses in Easton on Thursday, May 18. Since, they've traversed Kittitas, Grant, Kittitas and Whitman counties on what the state calls the Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail. Locals along the way have a different name for it – through Adams, Southern Spokane and Whitman cou...
SPOKANE VALLEY – According to reports an area man died after an exchange of gunfire with Spokane County Sheriff’s Deputies on June 4 shortly before 12:30 in the morning. The shooting happened in the 6300 block of E. Broadway Ave. when deputies were working to locate a wanted suspect. Shortly after arriving in the area, deputies encountered the man and there was an exchange of gunfire according to records. During the exchange of gunfire, the male was struck. Deputies provided immediate medical aid, but the man was pro...
LIBERTY LAKE - A local 17 year old girl continues battling cancer in the in-patient oncology wing of Sacred Heart Medical Center. Payton Begovich was diagnosed in 2021 at age 15, with a malignant form of brain cancer called glioblastoma multiforme. She has undergone multiple treatments from that time onward. According to Tony Begovich, Payton's father, Payton began complaining of vision problems in her left eye in August of 2021. By the end of August she was struggling with...
LIBERTY LAKE – A Cheney man struck a pedestrian on Interstate 90 near the weigh station on June 6 According to the Washington State Patrol, Marietta Portegai, 78, of Calgary, Canada was trying to walk across the eastbound lanes of I-90 when she was struck by a 2003 Chevrolet Blazer driven by Jeromy L. Riggs, 34, of Cheney. Portegai was transported to Sacred Heart Hospital with serious injuries, the patrol reported. WSP said her injuries do not appear life-threatening at this time, however she will remain under observation a...
SPOKANE VALLEY – Three teenagers, two aged 15 and a 14 year old, were arrested and placed in juvenile detention after they tried running from police when they were pulled over in a stolen car in the 5600 block of E. Sprague. On May 31, 2023, at approximately 12:15 am, Spokane Valley Deputy Ball observed a Hyundai Sonata going west on Sprague near S. McKinnon Road. Both license plates of the vehicle were bent up at approximately a 90-degree angle, making them unreadable. Knowing license plates are often bent or obscured to p...
LIBERTY LAKE – On June 1 a woman reported being attacked along a hiking trail near the intersection of S. Zephyr Rd. and S. Lakeside Rd. at 5:30 p.m. but told deputies she was able to fight off the attacker according to a June 2 press release. The suspect, later identified as 24-year-old Ethan S. Cunningham was arrested for 2nd degree assault after an investigation by Spokane County Sexual Assault (SAU), Spokane County Investigative Unit (SCIU) Detectives, and Spokane Valley Deputies. The report shows Spokane County D...
SPOKANE VALLEY — A man has been arrested for indecent exposure and providing false information to police on May 30 and is now in Spokane County Jail with a $250 bond. Billy M. Welliver, 44, after Spokane Valley Deputies responded to the report of a male urinating on the side of a business located in the 700 block of North Sullivan Road. The caller said the male refused to leave and had exposed himself in front of an adult female employee. Deputies contacted Welliver on the west side of the building and he denied urinating in...
LIBERTY LAKE – Want to go fishing at one of the area lakes but don’t have a license? Well, this weekend you’re in luck as “Free Fishing Weekend” opens state waters for anglers who don’t have a license. But if you don’t have a license, be careful what you catch this Saturday and Sunday, June 10-11. Game wardens will be on the lookout for fishermen catching salmon, sturgeon and steelhead in Eastern Washington waters without a license. That’s because state bureaucrats in Olympia have changed the rules relating to Free Fishing...
City Council votes on Barker Project Valley Herald SPOKANE VALLEY —The city council voted unanimously on a motion consideration for the Barker Road Widening project at their regular meeting on June 6. The current project, according to reference documents, is the last segment of the multi-phase project and will construct the remaining road improvements connecting both east and west ends of Euclid Avenue including the Union Pacific Railroad crossing and the multi-use path from east Euclid to the Barker Grade Separation Project...
